The Social Security Administration (SSA) has added more than 10 new conditions to its Compassionate Allowances (CAL) list.
The purpose of CAL is to help expedite the processing of disability claims for people with the most serious diseases and medical conditions who meet the administration’s statutory standard for disability benefits.
According to a statement from the SSA, the CAL list now has 300 conditions after adding these 13 conditions:
Au-Kline Syndrome
Bilateral Anophthalmia
Carey-Fineman-Ziter Syndrome
Harlequin Ichthyosis – Child
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
LMNA-related Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Progressive Muscular Atrophy
Pulmonary Amyloidosis – AL Type
Rasmussen Encephalitis
Thymic Carcinoma
Turnpenny-Fry Syndrome
WHO Grade III Meningiomas
Zhu-Tok